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Welcome to my blog!

My parents broke the mold, when they left their little hometown in Denmark to move to East Africa. At a very tender age, I was introduced to a world far larger than I could ever have experienced at home. I learned new languages, made friends from all over the world, and discovered a myriad of cultures.

 

There are countless ways to live a life. No one has the right to dictate how you should live yours. Liberated from the prison of my own culture, I embraced change, diversity, and new opportunities. After attending high schools in Tanzania and Kenya, I invested four years in learning how to build wooden boats before living for a year onboard a Baltic schooner in the British Virgin Islands. I studied economies at Sussex and Warwick universities, then landed a job as advisor in Uganda's finance ministry. I did a doctorate in economics at Oxford University, while working part time as a freelance consultant. After a stint in the World Bank's research department in Washington, D.C., I analysed Latin American bond markets at investment banks in London and New York, which led me into asset management.

 

I retired as Global Head of Research at a major Emerging Markets asset manager in 2021 and then set out to do all the other stuff I always wanted to do. I crossed the Atlantic as captain of my own ship and spent a year travelling in Africa and Asia. Unwilling to live in Britain due to Brexit, I moved to Spain, where I am now very happily settled.

 

I have been to 184 countries and I plan to visit the rest.

 

This blog is about my experiences and my thoughts about the world. You will undoubtedly disagree with many of my opinions. I am ruthlessly woke, yet a hard-nosed economist. I am pro-immigrant, anti-fascist, an atheist, and a staunch Remoaner. I support de-criminalising drugs and sex work and I wish to see the world move beyond the tribalism of nation states.

 

I post stuff on Blueskye at jandehn.bsky.social.

 

Enjoy! 

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”

― Charles Mackay

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